Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the largest and earliest of Greek Byzantine churches . |
| 2 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 3 | They were particularly impressed with the additional two and a half million for home care with the resources to go with it , together with the additional and also of course the eight hundred thousand for the er scheme . |
| 4 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 5 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 6 | The simplest and earliest of these is due to Alfrey and consists of taking the spectral function as the negative slope of the relaxation curve in a static ( stress relaxation or creep ) experiment ( Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 7 | It was merely the nearest and loudest of five or six clashing noises . |
| 8 | Most pilgrimages are to a dead place , whereas this is surely the noblest and best of pilgrimages . |
| 9 | On his return to London he makes the following comment on the period 8 to 14 November , presumably spent with Helen Noble : ‘ The holiest and best of pleasures . |
| 10 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 11 | Perversely , doing this will require the biggest and best of radio telescope arrays . |
| 12 | And though fine-paper profits drooped from £14.2 million to £13 million , they rose at Donald Murray Paper , in Glasgow , which remains ‘ the biggest and best of our British companies within the fine-paper group ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Rob , I do n't believe you 've met Commander Bob Tanner , ’ Bliss began conversationally , as though he and D'Arcy were the oldest and best of friends . |
| 14 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 15 | The third and best of the Rabbitte family trilogy that began with The Commitments is an essential read for anyone with fond memories of Italia ‘ 90 . |
| 16 | No company seized the opportunity to record Sir Charles Mackerras 's fine performance in 1986 of The Golden Legend , the last and best of the major choral works . |
| 17 | This will be a new experience for Mr Major , the last and hardest of his political initiation rites . |
| 18 | He 's been to the last 2 olympics , skied in world cups , faced the steepest and fastest of runs . |